| 单词 | sawn-off |
| 释义 | > as lemmassawn-off 2. sawn-off (now more usually than sawed-off except in North American usage). extracted from sawnadj. a. Of a (shot)gun: = sawed adj. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooting equipment > [adjective] > type of shot-gun choke-bored1875 under-and-over1881 ten-bore1892 ten-gauge1894 sawed-off1898 sawn-off1915 side by side1919 over-under1926 over-and-under1930 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [adjective] > attributes buttless1828 self-cocking1837 belt size1858 stockless1886 sawed-off1898 multibarrel1899 multi-barrelled1907 sawn-off1915 1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear i. vi. 113 In the latter was a sawn-off shot-gun, so he came with the deliberate purpose of crime. 1937 N. Marsh Vintage Murder ii. 14 A salute of two sawn-off shotguns. 1959 Encounter July 59/1 A fifteen-year-old highschool boy who had taken a sawn-off shotgun into the classroom and blown off the head of a classmate. 1978 R. Westall Devil on Road xx. 186 A sawn-off shotgun..sprays lead like a hose. b. = sawed adj. 1b. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] shorta900 littleOE lowa1398 untallc1535 dwarfish1542 shrimpish1549 pygmy1592 shrubby1603 dapper1606 punya1616 runtisha1642 truss1674 sesquipedalian1741 smally1764 petite1766 elfin1796 scram1825 squibbish1826 gnomic1845 dwarf-like1850 knee-high to a grasshopper1851 underhanded1856 nanoid1857 whipping-snapping1861 scrunty1868 midget1875 short-set1883 sawed-off1887 strunty1897 munchkin1930 sawn-off1936 short-arsed1951 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [adjective] > smaller than usual or standard size petty1393 small1525 scrubby1591 undersized1706 underlinga1722 underline1750 under-size1820 manikin1840 underhanded1856 small1877 sawed-off1887 sawn-off1936 1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 162 Yet could I trudge in sawn-off trousers, And redden up like logs at Yule. 1944 Coast to Coast 1943 56 He was a sawn-off little bloke, and they reckoned there couldn't have been much grass about when he was born. 1954 ‘J. Christopher’ Twenty-second Cent. 104 It's a little sawn-off town up in Scotland. 1960 J. Mortimer Call me Liar 431 Found him, have you?.. That sawn-off, bald, damp-eyed old hundred per cent British duodenal with..no convictions known. < as lemmas |
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